Andrew Hull Foote

Andrew Hull Foote (12 September 1806-26 June 1863) was a US Navy Rear Admiral during the American Civil War.

Biography
Andrew Hull Foote was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1806, the son of US Senator Samuel A. Foot, and he left West Point in 1822 to serve in the US Navy as a midshipman. From 1822 to 1843, he served in the Caribbean, Pacific, Mediterranean, the African coast, and the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Foote was an active supporter of the temperance movement, ending the policy of supplying grog to US Navy sailors. From 1849 to 1851, he commanded USS Perry off Africa and suppressed the illegal slave trade there, and he became an abolitionist. In 1856, he fought in the Battle of the Pearl River Forts during the Second Opium War after the Chinese forts fired at him as he performed his duties as an observer of the Royal Navy. From 1858 to 1861, he commanded the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City. When the American Civil War broke out, Foote was given command of the Mississippi River Squadron with distinction, assisting Ulysses S. Grant in his capture of Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862; in March 1862, his flotilla fought at the Battle of Island Number Ten. In late 1862, he was promoted to Rear Admiral, and he died in 1863 while on his way to take command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.